• A good reputation: a protection against shareholder activism? 

      Hoffman, Christian; Brønn, Peggy Simcic; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      When shareholders become dissatisfied with a public company’s policies or actions, they may resort to activist interventions. Shareholder activism has been described as an attempt to resolve agency conflicts by directly ...
    • A social net? Internet and social media use during unemployment 

      Feuls, Miriam; Fieseler, Christian; Suphan, Anne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Many people who are unemployed tend to experience forms of psychological and social losses, including a weakened time structure, diminished social contacts, an absence of collective purpose, falling status, and inactivity. ...
    • Authenticity and the Sharing Economy 

      Bucher, Eliane; Fieseler, Christian; Fleck, Matthes; Lutz, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Based on a qualitative interview-study as well as on a quantitative survey among users of the room sharing platform Airbnb, we show that situational closeness between sharing economy consumers and providers may prompt ...
    • Being Unemployed in the Age of Social Media 

      Feuls, Miriam; Fieseler, Christian; Suphan, Anne; Meckel, Miriam (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This article reports the results of a stratified sample survey of 2414 unemployed individuals in Germany regarding Internet usage, accompanied by a small sample of qualitative interviews and time-use diaries. The Internet ...
    • Boundaryless careers in the gig economy: An oxymoron? 

      Kost, Dominique; Fieseler, Christian; Wong, Sut I (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Advocates of the boundaryless career perspective have relied to a great extent on the assumption that actors take responsibility for their own career development and that they consequently take charge of developing their ...
    • Boundaryless careers in the gig economy: An oxymoron? 

      Kost, Dominique; Fieseler, Christian; Wong, Sut I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Advocates of the boundaryless career perspective have relied to a great extent on the assumption that actors take responsibility for their own career development and that they consequently take charge of developing their ...
    • Collective Action and Provider Classification in the Sharing Economy 

      Newlands, Gemma Elisabeth Marjorie; Lutz, Christoph; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Conditions in the sharing economy are often favourably designed for consumers and platforms but entail new challenges for the labour side, such as substandard social-security and rigid forms of algorithmic management. Since ...
    • Deep Learning Meets Deep Democracy: Deliberative Governance and Responsible Innovation in Artificial Intelligence 

      Buhmann, Alexander; Fieseler, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Responsible innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) calls for public deliberation: well-informed “deep democratic” debate that involves actors from the public, private, and civil society sectors in joint efforts to ...
    • Digital labourers’ proactivity and the venture for meaningful work: Fruitful or fruitless? 

      Wong, Sut I; Fieseler, Christian; Kost, Dominique (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Digital Labor, taking up flexible but small-scale employment arrangements on onlineintermediary platforms, with few constraints on how much, when, and where work isperformed, are becoming the new work reality for many ...
    • European Perspectives on Power in the Sharing Economy 

      Newlands, Gemma; Lutz, Christoph; Fieseler, Christian (Research report, 2017)
      This report, ‘European Perspectives on Power in the Sharing Economy’, forms one element of a European Union Horizon 2020 Research Project on the sharing economy: Ps2Share ‘Participation, Privacy, and Power in the Sharing ...
    • Finding Meaning in a Hopeless Place? The Construction of Meaningfulness in Digital Microwork 

      Kost, Dominique; Fieseler, Christian; Wong, Sut I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      New forms of employment centered on the completion of simple and atomized tasks, such as online microwork, raise the question of the possible gratifications that could be derived from such work when compared to more ...
    • Fostering Creative Performance of Platform Crowdworkers: The Digital Feedback Dilemma 

      Wong, Sut I; Bunjak, Aldijana; Černe, Matej; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      With crowdsourcing increasingly contributing to organizations’ innovative performance, it becomes more and more important for them to cultivate the creativity of their crowdsourcing communities. While digital feedback is ...
    • From crafting what you do to building resilience for career commitment in the gig economy 

      Wong, Sut I; Kost, Dominique; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The present study investigates how individual and collaborative job crafting may help digital labourers to build resilience and career commitment in the gig economy. Results based on a time-lagged survey from 334 digital ...
    • Managing Algorithmic Accountability: Balancing Reputational Concerns, Engagement Strategies, and the Potential of Rational Discourse 

      Buhmann, Alexander; Paßmann, Johannes; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      While organizations today make extensive use of complex algorithms, the notion of algorithmic accountability remains an elusive ideal due to the opacity and fluidity of algorithms. In this article, we develop a framework ...
    • Managing Algorithmic Accountability: Balancing Reputational Concerns, Engagement Strategies, and the Potential of Rational Discourse 

      Buhmann, Alexander; Passmann, Johannes; Fieseler, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      While organizations today make extensive use of complex algorithms, the notion of algorithmic accountability remains an elusive ideal due to the opacity and fluidity of algorithms. In this article, we develop a framework ...
    • Mattering in Digital Labor 

      Bucher, Eliane; Fieseler, Christian; Lutz, Christoph (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose: Online gig labor platforms bring together a global and fast-growing workforce to complete highly granular, remote and decontextualized tasks. While these environments might be empowering to some workers, many ...
    • Muzzling social media: The adverse effects of moderating stakeholder conversations online 

      Buhmann, Alexander; Maltseva, Kateryna; Fieseler, Christian; Fleck, Matthes (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Many organizations struggle to meaningfully engage with their stakeholders on political, societal and environmental topics via social media. Often such discourses unravel into splintered and negative conversations, raising ...
    • A Pharmacological Perspective on Technology-Induced Organised Immaturity: The Care-giving Role of the Arts 

      Alacovska, Ana; Booth, Peter; Fieseler, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Digital technologies induce organised immaturity by generating toxic sociotechnical conditions that lead us to delegate autonomous, individual, and responsible thoughts and actions to external technological systems. Aiming ...
    • Power in the Sharing Economy 

      Newlands, Gemma; Lutz, Christoph; Fieseler, Christian (Research report, 2017)
      Literature review
    • Professionals, purpose-seekers, and passers-through: How microworkers reconcile alienation and platform commitment through identity work 

      Bucher, Eliane; Fieseler, Christian; Lutz, Christoph; Buhmann, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Digital microwork consists of remote and highly decontextualized labor that is increasingly governed by algorithms. The anonymity and granularity of such work is likely to cause alienation among workers. To date we know ...